What does "swole" mean?
simple past and past participle of swell: swelled; swollen.
Swole
/swəʊl/ adj, verb, slang
adj, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: simple past and past participle of swell: swelled; swollen.
- Grammar: swole is listed as adj, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: on swole, strapping.
- Usage evidence: Well, we git him into the cook-car between us, and git him stretched out on the table and some water on him. He's kind of a sorry sight what with the black eye and swole lip he got earlier in the evenin' and now a lump on his head the size of a hen's egg where the potato masher's hit him.
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Definitions
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of swell: swelled; swollen. Southern-US, also, form-of, participle, past
"His arm just swole up."
Adjective
- 1 Swollen, enlarged. dialectal
"Well, we git him into the cook-car between us, and git him stretched out on the table and some water on him. He's kind of a sorry sight what with the black eye and swole lip he got earlier in the evenin' and now a lump on his head the size of a hen's egg where the potato masher's hit him."
- 2 Swollen, enlarged.; Of a person: having large, well-developed muscles; muscular. dialectal, slang
"I ain't swole enough, brah. I gotta work out in the gym more."
- 3 Swollen, enlarged.; Of a person: erect; having an erection of the penis; sexually aroused, hard. dialectal, slang
"her titties got me swole."
- 4 Full (of something); bursting with. figuratively
"Sourdough went on to explain the occasion for the festivity. "The Popplewells are so swole with pride now they got the upstairs house finished that they got to give a house-warmin'.""
- 5 Extremely proud or arrogant. figuratively
"Strangers weren't sure she was drunk, but I knew. Granny got braggish when drunk. She got swole up about herself. When she took to bragging on her thoughts and notions it was time to jump from the station wagon and walk or brace for a crash."
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- 6 Upset; experiencing strong negative emotion. figuratively, usually
"Every once in a while, maybe twice a year, Bessie gets all galled under the britchin' about something [...] Usually over some triflin' little thing that don't amount to a hill of beans, like I won't wash my feet or something, but she gets all swole up like a snakebit pup and says she's leavin' me for good this time."
Adjective
- 1 Extremely muscled wordnet
Synonyms
All synonyms on swolestrapping
Example
"Well, we git him into the cook-car between us, and git him stretched out on the table and some water on him. He's kind of a sorry sight what with the black eye and swole lip he got earlier in the evenin' and now a lump on his head the size of a hen's egg where the potato masher's hit him."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "swole"?
Common synonyms include: on swole, strapping.
How do you use "swole" in a sentence?
Well, we git him into the cook-car between us, and git him stretched out on the table and some water on him. He's kind of a sorry sight what with the black eye and swole lip he got earlier in the evenin' and now a lump on his head the size of a hen's egg where the potato masher's hit him.
How do you pronounce "swole"?
Pronounced /swəʊl/.
Etymology
From earlier swoll, from Middle English swal, swall, swalle (simple past tense), and suoll, suolle, swalle, swol, swole, swolle, iswolle, yswolle (past participle), inflected forms of swellen (“to swell”), from Old English sweall (simple past tense), from Proto-Germanic *swall, first and third person singular preterite of Proto-Germanic *swellaną (“to swell”); further origin uncertain.